Lessons From ‘Simpler Taxes for America’ Tour

As the “Simpler Taxes for America” tour winds up on Monday at FedEx headquarters in Memphis, Tenn., what have we learned about the prospects for a tax-code overhaul in Congress?

Here are a few tentative conclusions:

–The listening tour’s organizers, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R., Mich.) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D., Mont.), are both earnest and energetic leaders when it comes to the complex job of rewriting U.S. tax code. They even agree on a lot of specifics, despite the fact that Mr. Camp is a Republican House member and Mr. Baucus is a Democratic senator…

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